Typically battery life on a PocketPC?

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I bought a new Zire 72 and I am not impressed with the battery life.
Tell me PPC users how often do you need to charge? With my Palm I play
music, record and play videos, view photos, etc.. These activities
waste the battery life so I need to charge the unit once a day. If I
ignored such multimedia usage I would get longer.

The reason I ask was I was thinking about buying the low end Dell
PocketPC but chose the Zire 72 instead. It has been a great, great
Palm, except for the blasted internal battery. Dell's have a
replaceable battery. I hope long term I did not make a mistake. The
Palm will be useless in a couple years if the battery dies and Palm no
longer repairs this unit , because its too old! Then I'd regret not
buying a PocketPC!


Thanks,


John
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"John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a new Zire 72 and I am not impressed with the battery life.
> Tell me PPC users how often do you need to charge? With my Palm I play
> music, record and play videos, view photos, etc.. These activities
> waste the battery life so I need to charge the unit once a day. If I
> ignored such multimedia usage I would get longer.
>
> The reason I ask was I was thinking about buying the low end Dell
> PocketPC but chose the Zire 72 instead. It has been a great, great
> Palm, except for the blasted internal battery. Dell's have a
> replaceable battery. I hope long term I did not make a mistake. The
> Palm will be useless in a couple years if the battery dies and Palm no
> longer repairs this unit , because its too old! Then I'd regret not
> buying a PocketPC!
>

It depends on your usage pattern. On a Pocket PC Phone Edition, since a
radio is always on the batter life is shorter than on a Pocket PC. Wireless
LAN and Bluetooth impact, as how bright you leave the backlight on.

My experience is that a HP iPAQ h4150 may last a few days with Bluetooth and
some usage, or less with wireless LAN. On the other hand most of the new (if
not all) Pocket PC charge when connected to USB, so simply placing it in the
cradle to sync is enough to keep the power going on.

--
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My experience has been that typically Palm devices have a much better
battery life than most pocketPC's, that being said though, I made the switch
to pocketPC and would NEVER go back to palm.


"John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:johnw_94020-DCEEFC.08595503042005@msnews.microsoft.com...
| I bought a new Zire 72 and I am not impressed with the battery life.
| Tell me PPC users how often do you need to charge? With my Palm I play
| music, record and play videos, view photos, etc.. These activities
| waste the battery life so I need to charge the unit once a day. If I
| ignored such multimedia usage I would get longer.
|
| The reason I ask was I was thinking about buying the low end Dell
| PocketPC but chose the Zire 72 instead. It has been a great, great
| Palm, except for the blasted internal battery. Dell's have a
| replaceable battery. I hope long term I did not make a mistake. The
| Palm will be useless in a couple years if the battery dies and Palm no
| longer repairs this unit , because its too old! Then I'd regret not
| buying a PocketPC!
|
|
| Thanks,
|
|
| John
| --
| Visit the JWPaul travel documentary video website
| http://johnw.freeshell.org/JWPaul.com

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My ipaq 2210 is pretty much the 3-dayer assuming that I'm not running
Windows Media to listen to mp3's. If you sync on a nightly basis (AS YOU
SHOULD), the cradle will keep the battery charge up.

David H

xfiler wrote:
> Your batter life would be dependent upon usage. My
> former PPC was an 3955 Ipaq. Which I still use, had no
> Wifi, or bluetooth; I could go 3 days without charging
> it, with average use.
>
> I now have a Dell X50v, and I find that the standard
> battery is a little dissapointing if I am using wifi.
> However, if I don't go wireless, I can keep the Dell from
> needing to be charged for about 2 days with normal usage.
>
> However what I call normal usage may not be yours!! ;-}
>
> HTH and of course...YMMV
>
> xfiler
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I bought a new Zire 72 and I am not impressed with the
>
> battery life.
>
>>Tell me PPC users how often do you need to charge? With
>
> my Palm I play
>
>>music, record and play videos, view photos, etc.. These
>
> activities
>
>>waste the battery life so I need to charge the unit once
>
> a day. If I
>
>>ignored such multimedia usage I would get longer.
>>
>>The reason I ask was I was thinking about buying the low
>
> end Dell
>
>>PocketPC but chose the Zire 72 instead. It has been a
>
> great, great
>
>>Palm, except for the blasted internal battery. Dell's
>
> have a
>
>>replaceable battery. I hope long term I did not make a
>
> mistake. The
>
>>Palm will be useless in a couple years if the battery
>
> dies and Palm no
>
>>longer repairs this unit , because its too old! Then
>
> I'd regret not
>
>>buying a PocketPC!
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
>>John
>>--
>>Visit the JWPaul travel documentary video website
>>http://johnw.freeshell.org/JWPaul.com
>>.
>>

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On 2005-04-04, alan smith <alan@REMOVEmral.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> To take it further Psions had better battery life again. Over 20 hours
> on the 5mx and over 40 hours on the 3's. The conversion has taken some
> time, I would definitely like better battery life but I prefer the ppc
> now. I would seriously consider going back though if a new Psion was
> released though (but that is very doubtful).

If I could by a Psion Revo new tomorrow (and have it have a replaceable
battery this time) I'd be all over it. As is. I loved Psion.

Preston